ID: 15579
Date of birth : 1858
Place of birth : Dalasýsla
Date of death : 1945
Markús Jónsson: Born at Spágilsstöðum in Laxárdal in Dalasýsla in 1858. He died in 1945 in Manitoba.
Spouse: Margrét Jónsdóttir born at Hróðnýjarstöðum in Dalasýsla in 1857, d. 1940.
Children: 1) Jón 2) Guðrún Sigríður. They took the twin daughters of Árni Jónsson and Hólmfríður Gísladóttir as foster children. Their names were Hólmfríður and Sigurveig.
They came west in 1883 and spent some time in Winnipeg. Markús bought land in the Argyle Settlement northwest of Baldur and moved there in 1898.